NEWS

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diffval 1.2.0.9001

• Corrected a bug in the stochastic hill climbing auxiliary function that could return a partition in violation of the defined minimum group size

diffval 1.2.0 (2025-10-22)

• Added function internal_assignment()
• Improved documentation, linking to Monteiro-Henriques (2025, https://doi.org/10.3897/VCS.140466).

diffval 1.1.0 (2023-03-09)

Major changes

• Function bigdata_tdv() added, allowing Total Differential Value calculation for big matrices, optionally using fork with package parallel.
• Two auxiliary functions added to assist bigdata_tdv() in utils.R.

Bug fixes

• Improved sorting in tabulation() function.
• TDV calculation was corrected for some cases in optim_tdv_hill_climb() and in the associated auxiliary function in utils.R.

diffval 1.0.0 (2022-11-14)

• Updated version, for package release.

diffval 0.0.0.9025

• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.